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Bathroom Drama
At 10pm tonight, I discovered our bathroom tub filling up with dirty water. The tub was already half full of water when I found it. This has happened once before and I have no idea where in the apartment complex this water is coming from. It is so gross. The strange thing is that the last time this happened, it was also late at night around the same time. The apartment complex called in a plumber that showed up around 11:30pm. He pumped the tub or something, but he was working from behind the button that controls the drain instead of the drain itself. He pulled out some massive hair, which is disgusting because it is obviously not even our hair. It is so dark. He also broke the button thing that controls the drain. It is now hanging out of the tub. Supposedly, someone is suppose to come back tomorrow to fix it but he mentioned that the whole tub might have to come out to do so. Deep instead, I am hoping that they have to take out the tub because maybe we can convince them to remodel our bathroom in the process. It is due for an update!
It is now past midnight and I just finished bleaching and cleaning the tub. It was so dirty from all of the water. 5am is going to come so early!
Has anyone else had this happen? I have never seen a tub fill up with mystery water on its own before moving into this place.
Re: Bathroom Drama
That happened at H's old house - anytime we would flush the toilet, the tub in one bathroom would back up with a little bit of water. It wouldn't fill up like you are talking about...but at least back up a little.
My guess is that even if it is an apartment, it is probably coming from somewhere within your apartment and not a stranger's apartment. I don't know how their plumbing is, but I can't imagine that you would have a problem and your neighbors wouldn't...if it were a large apartment, I'd definitely think there would be other complaints...but who knows.
This is gross and definitely TMI, but H's house issues were caused from tampons being flushed down the toilet. If you flush tampons down the toilet, that is likely the issue and I would recommending stopping now. The newer houses have plastic pipes but older places have metal pipes that corrode and rust and easily catch the tampons, causing them to clog up and eventually completely block the pipe. Plumber said they should never be flushed down in the older houses and didn't recommend it even with the plastic pipes but said it isn't as bad in newer houses.
That's insanely gross, but I hear you. My tub is terrible. Though it doesn't fill up unexpectedly, I can't ever take a shower without haivng the tub fill up a couple inches at my feet.
I think there is a deep down clog somewhere that I can't take care of. I've rigged a wire coat hanger and pretty much pulled whatever I could reach out of the drain (all my hair) and I literally put draino down it once a week. This is the first week where I've taken showers and had all the water drain.
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They are sending someone out on Wed or Thurs to try to fix the rest of the tub. DH and I are both praying we get a new tub/bathroom out of this. That would be awesome.
The plumbers think there might be something located under our apartment causing it. We weren't running any water when it happened and we don't flush anything down the toilet. My parents were always so against that, so I have never picked up any bad habits there.